Casablanca, Chicago students exchange viewpoints at video Conference

Casablanca and Chicago students asked and answered each other's questions on their respective towns and other issues on teaching systems, as well as on Islam and fundamentalism, during a videoconference, held on Thursday.

The videoconference between Students of Casablanca Ben M'sick and the Chicago Walter Payton high schools was sponsored by the two towns twinning committee. The two schools signed a twinning agreement in October 2003.

Chicago students mainly focussed their questions on Islam, fundamentalism, the education system in Morocco and the social and cultural life in Casablanca, while their Moroccan peers asked question on the Walter Payton high school educational system and the everyday like of Chicago.

The Moroccan students tried in their answers to correct the erroneous idea of Islam in the West, stressing true Islam has nothing to do with fundamentalism.